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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Obama Torches Trump in Comeback Speech

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

News, Politics

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas report on the surprise comeback speech by former President Obama signaling to many he is going to return to the fight more publicly against Trump. Visit https://SIMPLISAFE.com/MEIDAS to protect your home with 50% OFF any NEW SimpliSafe system with a Select Professional Monitoring plan. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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He's back. Former President Obama is breaking his silence and in an incredible surprise speech, he's destroying

0:23.0

Donald Trump for Trump's attack on our voting rights. Former President Obama just gave a speech

0:29.8

in front of a group made up of Texas state Democratic legislators, and former President

0:36.5

Obama talked about how the United States was once the envy of the world when it came to voting rights and how it was authoritarian regimes, dictatorships across the world that would rig their elections and how the rest of the world used to look to the United States as a shining example of the way

0:56.3

democracy is supposed to work until Donald Trump destroyed it. Let's see what former President

1:02.3

Obama said. Let's play it. You've got countries all around the world where the elections are fixed,

1:07.5

and whoever's in charge suppresses and makes it hard for the opposition to compete.

1:14.0

And we used to be a shining example to those countries.

1:21.2

And people would aspire to the kind of true democracy that America had.

1:28.7

And we need to get back to that.

1:32.9

Because that's not just a Democratic or Republican idea.

1:36.0

That's an American idea.

1:37.4

That's what we're fighting for.

1:38.7

In addition, former President Obama also talked about how it is so critical right now to stand up for voting rights

1:47.5

as Republicans realize that their ideas are failing, that Americans don't like their ideas,

1:55.4

so they have to rig the game, play this clip.

1:57.8

The problem that we've been seen, not just recently, but this goes back a while,

2:03.4

is that the Republicans increasingly recognize their ideas won't sell. Now let me show you a longer

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